“In Kansas, the Legislature reigns supreme, and any branch of government that fails to recognize the supremacy of lawmakers will learn to bend a knee to those who sit under the Statehouse dome. “And right now, the Kansas Legislature is talking to you, judicial branch. Under a bill that emerged...
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Legislature pursuing budget blackmail of courts
“Sen. Jeff King, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, doesn’t see this as a problem…Maybe blackmail isn’t the right word for what the Legislature is doing to the judicial branch. Maybe ‘power grab’ would be a better term. Either way, lawmakers are trying to alter the roles, responsibilities and fundamental...
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The Chair of the Kansas Republican Party, Kelly Arnold, is urging legislators to support the bill to move local elections. He says it’s about increasing turnout but also says, “The vast network of politically active people, who engaged wholeheartedly in the even-year general election, currently have almost no time, given...
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“Local control” is becoming the most abused term in the Kansas legislature. Bills to change how judges are selected and link courts’ funding to anything other than what they need have more to do with school funding cases than “local control”. “Sen. Jeff King, R-Independence, who chairs the Senate Judiciary...
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